This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... I have glory enough, And gold I detest, The vile dross never touches my hand! "See! the flag on the mast, How it points to the North, To the fatherland where I was born; I will follow thee, breeze, In thy heavenly course, To the beautiful land of my morn!" NOTES TO CANTO XV. 105 Mjolner is the name of Thor's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... I have glory enough, And gold I detest, The vile dross never touches my hand! "See! the flag on the mast, How it points to the North, To the fatherland where I was born; I will follow thee, breeze, In thy heavenly course, To the beautiful land of my morn!" NOTES TO CANTO XV. 105 Mjolner is the name of Thor's hammer or club (see Note 15). When thrown it kills all it comes in contact with, and then returns by itself to Thor. 106 "in her tresses of gold lurks a snare," It is almost impossible to give here Tegner's play of words in these lines: -- "Ty den gropen pa kind iir den falskate grop, och ett tat ar den flygande lock" gropen, the dimple, being akin to grop the hole, the pitfall, and ett nat having the double meaning of a snare, and a net for the hair. For the dimple on chin is the false one's pit, and a net her loose flying curls. 107 Walfader, one of the names of Odin, like Alfader, the latter designation meaning the father of all, and Walfader, from Wal choice, as he choses the fallen heroes which are worthy of Walhalla. "Fond of wine is Walfader, There is no harm in the cup," alludes to verses xii. and xiii. of Havamal. XII. Oblivion's heron hovers o'er carouse, And steals away all senses; On me too fell his feathers, In Gunlod's house and grotto. XIII. I drank, drank more than overfull In cunning Fjalar's fjall. Sweet 'tis to drink the inspiring draft, So thou keepest clear thy sense. This is an allusion to the Draught of Inspiration which Odin drank from the mead reached to him by Gunlod. This is the Saga: --Kwasir, a man jointly created by the Vanas and Asas, was full of wisdom, and beloved both by the gods and man. Wherever he came the wild passions were softened and the morals improved. But two mis-shapen, cunning dwarfs, (they were...
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